CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Tarnowskie Góry it runs 283 km to Tarnowskie Góry; allow about 4 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, Historic Centre of Kraków and back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Upper Silesia is Poland's industrial heart, a densely built region of coal mines, steelworks, spoil heaps and tidy brick housing, and at its northern edge lies Tarnowskie Gory, a town of about sixty thousand people that grew up around silver, lead and zinc. The mine and its underground water system were inscribed by UNESCO in 2017, and the town's historic centre is about a kilometre from the entrance. Katowice, the regional capital, is some thirty kilometres to the south-east.
Read the complete Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and write-up.
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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is where the day begins. Next is Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
There is no right way to arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and no ride passes through it casually. This was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, built during the occupation of Poland near the town of Oświęcim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and January 1945, at least 1.1 million people were murdered here, the vast majority of them Jews deported from across Europe, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and many others. On 27 January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the camp, and that date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day. UNESCO listed the site in 1979 as a memorial to the victims and a warning to humanity.
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Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Historic Centre of Kraków.
Every hour, a trumpeter plays a short melody from the taller tower of St Mary's Basilica on Kraków's market square, and every time the tune breaks off abruptly mid-phrase. Legend says it commemorates a watchman shot by a Tatar arrow in the throat as he sounded the alarm in the thirteenth century, and the hejnał has been played that way ever since, broadcast daily on Polish radio at noon. It is a fitting introduction to a city that wears its history so openly. The Rynek Główny, the main square, is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe, with the Renaissance Cloth Hall in the middle, and the historic centre, including Wawel Hill and the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, was among the first sites ever placed on the UNESCO list in 1978.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Kraków write-up.
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about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Historic Centre of Kraków. Next is back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, late in the day. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and. That is the ride.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 63 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Historic Centre of Kraków is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Historic Centre of Kraków → back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 80 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.